Doll structure



Feb. 28, 1928. x

H. B. BRUCKNER DOLL STRUCTURE Filed Auz. 24. 1925 INVENTOR Bruohzez;

ATTORNEY Fatented Feb. 28, 1928.

UNITED STATES HENRY BAILLET BRUCENER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DOLL STRUCTURE.

Application filed August 24, 1925.

This invention relates to, toy figures or manilrins and has for itsprimary object to provide a novel device of this kind consistingprimarily of a doll or other toy figure provided with means for mountinga telephonic rceeiver unit in the body thereof.

More particularly, in one embodiment of the invention, I provide thebody of the doll with a transversely ext-ending chamber 1 opening uponthe front and rear sides of the doll body and within one end of whichthe telephonic receiver unit is adapted to be inserted. The soundsemanating from said receiver unit have free egress in amplified volumefrom the other end of said chamber. In this manner, juvenile andbed-time stories such are being widely broadcasted by wireless or radiomay appear to emanate from the doll, and thus be presented in a veryrealistic manner.

It is another object of provide a device of the which may be applied todolls of various forms and constructions as now produced. in the artwithout greatly increasing the manufacture or selling coststhereof.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in theimproved radio loud speaker, and in the form, construction and relativearrangement of the several parts as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and subsequentlyincorporated in the subjoined claims.

In the drawing, wherein I have illustrated one simple and practicalembodiment of the invention, and in similar reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views,-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a doll provided with my presentimprovements whereby the doll subserves the purpose of a loud speakerfor radio receiving apparatus;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section 4:- taken on the line 22 of Fig.1, and

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation as indicated by the line 8-3 of Fig. 2.

In the type of doll which I have selected for purpose of illustrationand which is commonly referred to in the art as a soft body doll, thebody consists primarily of a suitable padding material indicated at 5confined between front and rear walls of fabric designated 6 and 7respectively. In a doll of this type, the walls 6 and 7 are providedwith openings therein of predetermined size the invention to abovecharacter Serial No. 51,918.

or area: and the padding material extending transversely between theseopenings is removed. A tube 8 preferably of cardboard is then insertedthrough this transverse opening and the edges of the fabric walls 6 and7 surrounding the openings therein are suitably attached to the oppositeends of this tube whereby the latter is held in place. This tube is openat its opposite ends and within the front end thereof a relatively shorttube 9 also preferably of cardboard is inserted and permanently fined tothe tube 8 by an adhesive or other suitable means. This inner tube 9likewise is entirely open at its opposite ends and it will be seen thatthe rear end edge 10 thereofpresents an annular shoulder at a pointintermediate the ends of the tube 8;

s fithin the rear end of the tube 8 the telephonic receiver unit 11 isadapted to be i: erted. This unit may be of any conventional formpurchasable in the open market and is commonly referred to as a headphone receiver, or one of the two receivers provided in head phones usedin connection witii radio receiving apparatus. This receiver is'providedwith the usual current conducting wires 12 and the switch plug 13. Theannular shoulder 10 above referred: to constitutes a stop limiting theinward move ment of the receiver 11 into the rear end of the tube 8,thus providing a substantialspace between the receiver diaphragm and thefront open end of the tube 8, said space constituting a sound box orchamber into which the sounds initially issue and from which they findegress in amplified volume through the front end of the inner tube 9. Itwill be understood that the casing of the receiver 11 has a more or lesstight frictional fit within the tube 8 so that it will not becomeaccidentally displaced therefrom. The front and rear open ends of thetube 8 are covered or concealed by the clothing of the doll, indicatedat 14.

While I have above described my present improvements as they will beembodied in a soft body or stuffed doll, it will of course, be apparentthat the device may also be incorporated in doll bodies of otherconstruction such as metal or wood. In the latter case, when a solidwood body is used, it will be understood that a transverse opening ofsuitable area may be bored therethrough and provided with an internalshoulder as the equivalent of the annular shoulder 10 above diaphragmwill issue into the tube 9 or the referred to for limiting the inwardmovement of the receiver unit.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the construction and several advantages of myimproved radio loud speaker Will be readily understood. Ordinarily, whenthe device is not in use, the child may play With the doll in the samemanner as any ordinary doll of conventional manufacture.

' however, it is desired to use the doll as a loud speaker, as forinstance, When bed-time stories or other stories appealing to childrenare being broadcasted, it is only necessary to detach one of the headphones or receivers 11 from the head band and insert the same beneaththe clothing of the doll at the rear side of the body and into the rearend of the transverse chamber or tube 8 until the front end of thereceiver casing abuts against the shoulder 10. V-Vhen the switch plug 13is then inserted, the sounds from the receiver scribed aspecificembodiment of the several novel features of the device, it Will nevertheless, be understood that the same may be incorporated in various otheralternative structures, and I accordingly reserve the privilege ofadopting all such legitimate changes in the form, construction andrelarive-arrangement of the several parts as may be fairly embodiedWithin the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

I claim: e c

1. In a structure of the class described, a doll having a chamberextending through the body thereof and open at its opposite ends, one ofthe open ends of said chamber adapted to removably receive atelephonicreceiver unit, the remaining portionof said chamber constituting soundamplifying means, and stop means preventing movement ofthe receiverunitfrom its inserted posi tion towards the other end of said chamber.

2. In a structure of the class described,

a figure or manikin having a chamber eX- tending transversely throughthe body thereof and provided intermediate the ends or said chamber withan annular stop shoulder adapted to limit the insertion of a telephone10 rece ver unit into one end of said chamber.

3. In a structure of the class described, a doll having abody providedwith a transverse opening therethrough and an annular shoulderintermediate the ends of said openi ing, one end of said opening adaptedto receive a telephonic receiver unit frictionally engaging the Wall ofthe opening and sald shoulder limiting the insertion of said unit intothe opening.

4. In a structure of tlieclass described, a doll having a tube extendingtransversely through the body thereof open at its opposite ends andconnected to thefront rear Walls of the doll body, a second tube securedWithin the front end of said first-named tube and also open at itsopposite ends, the rear end of said second tube presenting an annularstop shoulder and the rear end of said first-named tube adapted'toreceive a telephonic receiver unit frictionally 'engagingthe Wall of,said first-namedtube and abutting against said annular stop shoulder.

I In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have s1gned my name hereto.

HENRY BAILLET BRUGKNER

